Bed attachment.



C. H. REYNOLDS. BED ATTACHMENT.

APPLICATION FILED IULY 23,1914.

1,234,804. Patented July 31,1917.

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BED ATTACHMENT- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 31, 1917.

Application filed July 23, 1914. Serial No. 852,660.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. RnY- NoLDs, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Defiance, in the county of Bedford, State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in BedAttachments; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear,land exact description of the invention, such as will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to furniture and has special reference to anattachment for beds adapted to constitute an upstanding side guard.

More particularly the invention relates to an attachment of the abovecharacter applicable to the ordinary brass or iron beds and adapted toiit varying lengths of such beds.

The principal object of the invention is to provide an improved andsimplified device of this character so arranged that 1t Ymay be appliedto different lengths of beds and when so applied will prevent theoccupant of the bed (such as a child) from falling out of bed.

With the above and other objects in view the invention consists ingeneral of certain details of construction and combination of partshereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings,and specifically claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, like characters of reference indicate likeparts in the several views and:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a bed showing the device appliedthereto.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the device.

Fig. 3 is a vertical section showing the adjusting means. v U

Fig. 4 is a detail of one of the grip hooks.

In the embodiment of the invention herein illustrated there aredisclosed end rails 10 arranged to extend vertically. Each of these endrails is provided with hooks 11 covered with elastic tubing 12 so thatwhen applied to the posts 13 of a bed 14 they will not mar the finish onsaid posts. Extending toward each other from these posts are top rails15 and bottom rails 16. One of these top rails 15 has a projectingmember 17 which telescopes within a socket portion 18 of the other rail15, the rails'being preferably tubular. Extending from one bottom rail16 is a projecting member 19 telescoping within a socket portion 20 ofthe other bottom member. This member 19 is provided on its upper surfacewith ratchet teeth 21 and projecting upward from thev socket portion 20is a housing 22 wherein is mounted a pawl member in the form of aplunger 23 provided with a stem 24 projecting through the top of thehousing and carrying on its upper end a grip 25. This pawl coperateswith the ratchet teeth to hold the two halves of the guard in adjustedposition. rIhe pawl is normally urged downward by a coil spring 26mounted within the housing 22 and surrounding the stem 24.

In using the device the hooks on one end member are applied to the postat one end of a bed. The projecting members are then inserted in theirsockets and pushed inward, the hooks on the remaining end member beingguided into position on the remaining bed post. When thus adjusted thepawl and ratchet device will prevent accidental disengagement orloosening of the guard. As can readily be seen, the device can beapplied to different lengths of beds without diiiiculty.

There has thus been provided a simple and elicient device of the kinddescribed and of the character specified.

It is obvious that many minor changes may be made in the form andconstruction of this invention without departing from the materialprinciples thereof. It is not therefore desired to confine the inventionto the exact form herein shown and described but it is wished to includeall such as come properly within the scope claimed.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

A detachable and separable bed attachment provided with common means tohold the parts together in adjusted position and attached to the bed,comprising a pair of separable guard sections, one of which carries anelongated ratchet bar extending in the direction of the length of saidsection edly Connected to the respective sections, Witnesses:

and the other of Which is provided with a In testimony whereof, I affixmy signapawl to lock the sections together in adture, in the presence oftwo Witnesses.

justed position, each of said sections being Y Y provided With bed postengaging hooks X- CHARLES H' REYNOLDS' said ratchet and pavvl alsoserving to hold ELIAS C. LYNN, said hooks in engagement with said posts.OSCAR ALDSTADT.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

